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Aaron said to them, “Pull off the gold earrings from your wives and sons and daughters and bring them to me.”

All the people pulled off their gold earrings and brought them to Aaron. He took what they handed him and shaped it with an engraving tool and made it into a bull calf cast out of metal. Then they said, “This is your god, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.”[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 32:4 The form is plural but only one idol was made. In the next verse Aaron treats this as if it were worship of the Lord.